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Gandhi’S Prophecy: Corporate Violence And A Mindful Law For Bhopal, Nehal A. Patel
Gandhi’S Prophecy: Corporate Violence And A Mindful Law For Bhopal, Nehal A. Patel
Nehal A. Patel
AbstractOver thirty years have passed since the Bhopal chemical disaster began,and in that time scholars of corporate social responsibility (CSR) havediscussed and debated several frameworks for improving corporate responseto social and environmental problems. However, CSR discourse rarelydelves into the fundamental architecture of legal thought that oftenbuttresses corporate dominance in the global economy. Moreover, CSRdiscourse does little to challenge the ontological and epistemologicalassumptions that form the foundation for modern economics and the role ofcorporations in the world.I explore methods of transforming CSR by employing the thought ofMohandas Gandhi. I pay particular attention to Gandhi’s critique ofindustrialization and principle of swadeshi (self-sufficiency) …
Changed Circumstances: The Federal Rules Of Civil Procedure And The Future Of Institutional Reform Litigation After Horne V. Flores, Catherine Y. Kim
Changed Circumstances: The Federal Rules Of Civil Procedure And The Future Of Institutional Reform Litigation After Horne V. Flores, Catherine Y. Kim
Catherine Y Kim
Since Brown v. Board of Education, the federal courts have played an expansive role in institutional reform litigation to restructure state and local government institutions such as public school systems, prisons, law enforcement agencies, and health care facilities accused of violating individual rights. The 2009 decision in Horne v. Flores, in which a five-four majority of the Supreme Court employed a novel interpretation of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to substantially enlarge government-defendants’ ability to terminate ongoing judicial oversight in these types of cases, threatens the future viability of this model of social reform. The propriety of institutional reform …